Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Founded in 1960, it has more than 30,000 members in over 240 chapters around the world. Not only as a professional member, I served as a chapter president and on International Board of Directors for the past 4 years. One of them was the curator of the world largest archaeological museum, Grand Egyptian Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

The contest was tainted during the first round when several nonprofits that had placed in the top 100 were disqualified without reason amidst criticisms about the contest design. I don't think contests should be banned entirely, they just need to be better designed : 1.) I'm not surprised.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. First published in Curator magazine in 2002, this essay presents five different museum "types" and their distinct opportunities and challenges.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. The Museum 2.0 In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Arts & Culture. included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, healthcare, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. The grant categories will be: Health. The Planet.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

This week, thoughts on Chapter 12 of Elaine Gurian’s book Civilizing the Museum , "Threshold Fear: Architecture program planning." In this essay, Elaine discusses the various barriers to entry for non-traditional visitors to museums, that is, the threshold fear that keeps such potential visitors from walking in our doors.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2010

Hosting a session on Monday at 2pm on Design for Participation with participatory design gurus Kathleen McLean and Dan Spock, along with research extraordinaire Kris Morrissey and participatory art rockstar Mark Allen. The king of idiosyncratic museums. This is the LA chapter of the 826 Valencia tutoring enterprise.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Paul is the CEO and Co-Founder of Boston-based FableVision, which creates and distributes original educational media, mobile games and apps designed to move the world to a better place. Paul is also a children’s book author who collaborates with his twin brother and NY Times #1 Best-Selling Author/Illustrator, Peter H. Simon Scriver.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This is the second part of a two-part interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard on their book Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. I love this idea, but I often find that museum staff are really nervous about making any changes that might alienate current members/donors.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

On Tuesday, I reviewed Elaine Gurian’s essay, Choosing Among the Options , on museum archetypes and self-definition. Next Tuesday, we'll look at chapters 16 and 17, on the merits and limitations of the team approach to exhibition design.) What if you don’t want to be identified as one type of museum?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2007

This is the final installment of the Museum 2.0 book club on Civilizing the Museum; The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian. I’d like to do more book clubs in the future; please let me know if there are any particular books on museum theory, design, innovation, etc. that you would recommend for Museum 2.0.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Want to experience art in a populist, energized, industrial/urban setting? Artprize , now in its second year, is a city-wide art festival with a $250,000 top prize to be awarded to the work that receives the most public votes. Now, after attending with museum friends from around the country, I'm hooked. Want to talk about it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. In fact, they even design the background for you. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. People who copy edited had a very clear job to do, and I did not allow people to copy edit more than one chapter per week.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

If they give all of their money to the arts and education and we’re in human services and we have no connection to them, even though they are a well-known name, we might know what they look like, we might’ve had a passing conversation with them at one point, they’re still a fundraising unicorn. Arts organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. 2) Crowd Creation. They encouraged Twitter users to send suggestions for the plot.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

This week, we consider Chapter 11 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum , "Function Follows Form: How mixed-used spaces in museums build community," but first, a short and relevant note about my writing process. And an art gallery. Museums are naturally tuned to some of these but not all. It's a laundromat.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

This week, we're covering the second objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : talking (chapter 6). In this post, a discussion about the art of conversation in the groundswell. Many museums have jumped into the middle level—producing their own content—without starting with commenting. The first is shouting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The design is slick, the functionality is cutting-edge, and the reviewers are raving. Known as micro-volunteers, these individuals offer one or two hours a week to complete “Challenges” in the areas of technology, design, research, etc. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Viddy :: viddy.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. In fact, they even design the background for you. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Responsively designed for both desktop and mobile devices, customers can buy, share, like, comment and checkout all from your nonprofit’s Facebook Page. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Aradium :: facebook.com/aradium. Easelly :: easel.ly. Flavors :: flavors.me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Flavors is a tool that allows nonprofits to easily create simple, well-designed websites for as little as $20 per year. Flavors :: flavors.me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Flavors is a tool that allows nonprofits to easily create simple, well-designed websites for as little as $20 per year. Flavors :: flavors.me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Decide whether to launch a new responsively designed website, to mobile-optimize your current site, or launch a separate mobile website. ? Hire a website and graphic designer. ? Get master copies of Photoshop files for all website and blog graphics from your designer. ? Implement your strategic plan. Websites. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. In fact, they even design the background for you. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Decide whether to launch a new responsively designed website, to mobile-optimize your current site, or launch a separate mobile website. Hire a website and graphic designer. Get master copies of Photoshop files for all website and blog graphics from your designer. Design e-newsletter and email fundraising appeal banner images.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2013

but hypertext-based interactive art and fiction is still a nerdy sideline at best. A cult of linearity has dominated content on the web, with implications about how we think about effective storytelling both online and in museums. It's a linear story, told top to bottom, with pagination for "chapters" of the story.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

There are people doing art. And not just museums jumped into that, it was a lot of different organizations. It’s the literal only a graphic design tool I use. From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter. What are you happy about?

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